Create: Stats & Additions

Create is a mod about elaborate machines built from gears, shafts, and a fair amount of trust. It rewards you with satisfying contraptions, but tells you very little about what any of them are actually doing once they're running. You know the stress is somewhere. You know it's probably fine. That's usually the whole extent of your information.

This mod is an attempt to fix that properly, and it ended up going further than a simple readout. At its core it's a wall-mounted, wire-free instrumentation layer for Create's own kinetic and logistics networks: live graphs for RPM and stress, dashboards that lay themselves out automatically, gauges for item and fluid throughput, signal antennas that extend monitoring across a base without redstone runs, and alarms that raise the alert before a line stalls rather than after.

From there it branches into a handful of genuinely separate technical areas, each held to the same standard of actually telling you what's happening:

• Flight: a full flight computer and cockpit display for craft built with Create Aeronautics.
• Combat: a tactical damage-tracking board built around fights with Create Big Cannons.
• Heating: an induction heater that replaces blaze fuel with pure rotation for basins and boilers.
• Logistics: a train dispatch and freight-manifest system that tracks deliveries and raises problems on its own.
• Automation: a logic controller that can pause machinery based on what the rest of the factory is doing.

It also plays well with the wider ecosystem rather than assuming it's the only thing installed: it recognizes kinetic and power-bridge blocks from Create Crafts & Additions, surfaces extra telemetry when Create: Diesel Generators is present, and integrates with JEI so the less obvious recipes, like cooking on the induction heater, are easy to find. None of these are required; the mod works standalone, they just make it more useful if you already have them.

It is, admittedly, a lot of mod for something that started as "I want to see the stress value." That's more or less the whole justification for its existence.